Kissing Christmas Goodbye: An Agatha Raisin Mystery, M.C. Beaton, 2007, St. Martin's Minotaur, Genre: Cozy Mystery. 234 pages. Finished 6/7/14.
Death of a Prankster: A Hamish MacBeth Mystery, M.C. Beaton, 1992, St. Martin's Press, Genre: Cozy Mystery. 151 pages. Finished 6/7/14.
Death of a Dentist: A Hamish MacBeth Mystery, M.C. Beaton, 1997, The Mysterious Press, Genre: Cozy Mystery. 129 pages. Finished 6/9/14.
LesOpinion: Just when I thought I'd exhausted the S. White Dickinson's supply of Agatha Raisin mysteries, I stumbled across a few more. I have nothing new to add about those. But then I embarked on Beaton's other oeuvre: the Hamish MacBeth cozies. These tales of a Scottish Highland village constable are a slightly better version of lightweight cozy mystery. You can read one in a day, making them perfect for a television-free vacation.
Here's a weird quirk of M.C. Beaton's novels: She loves the word "howled" in place of all the (often more sensible) alternatives (declared, exclaimed, cried, stated, said, whined, etc.). Saying that "Agatha howled" a few times over the course of 20 novels wouldn't seem so bad, but saying "Agatha howled" 10 times in the same novel? Is anyone editing this stuff?
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